RCU Forums - View Single Post - First broken engine and an oil problem
View Single Post
Old 02-08-2011 | 05:58 PM
  #17  
downunder's Avatar
downunder
 
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 4,527
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
From: Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
Default RE: First broken engine and an oil problem

That's definitely a manufacturing fault. I'd been wondering if they used a press in crankpin but that one seems to be machined as part of the crankshaft. The usual cause for a break like that is too small a radius where the crankpin blends in with the crankshaft giving a stress riser or overhardening making the pin brittle. Or a combination of the two .